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Films reviewed on this Page

Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video (1)
Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives (1)
Do Patti (3)
Raat Jawaan Hai (1)
The Shameless (1)
Santosh (1)
Girls Will Be Girls (1)
The Real Superstar (1)

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Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video
Anuj Kumar
The Hindu
Rajkummar Rao enlivens this long title with a short shelf life

Promising to be a laugh riot, Raaj Shaandilyaa’s bouquet of comic characters doesn’t bloom to its potential

Coming from a background in writing low-brow comedy skits for television, director Raaj Shaandilyaa has this knack for creating funny characters rooted in mofussil towns that generate mirth by engaging in rollicking repartees. His broad humour emanates from deep observation and understanding of the cultural mores of a conservative society coming to terms with socio-economic liberalisation in the 1990s. However, Shaandilya’s skill to combine the comic sketches into a wholesome screenplay is still a work in progress, resulting in a disappointing outcome.

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Read all 9 reviews of Vicky Vidya Ka Woh Wala Video here

Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives
Anmol Jamwal
Tried & Refused Productions (YouTube)
Delusion Pro Max

Do Patti
Saibal Chatterjee
NDTV
Kriti Sanon's Film Needed Much Better Cards To Make A Game Of It

The film is purply dark, a little suspenseful and somewhat twisted.

Identical twins of the kind that we encounter in Hindi popular cinema are always temperamentally polar opposites. The pair in Do Patti, a Netflix film directed by Shashanka Chaturvedi, is no exception - they look the same but are dissimilar in disposition and demeanour. The film, however, deviates from the larger narrative template that governs the genre. Mumbai movies may have stumbled upon a degree of freedom thanks to the advent of the streamers, but old habits die hard. Do Patti, scripted by Kanika Dhillon, has an old trope at its core. It, however, eschews the usual confusion-caused-by-mistaken-identity construct.

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Do Patti
Shubhra Gupta
The Indian Express
Shallow Kajol-Kriti Sanon film fails to deliver on its promise

There’s enough in Kriti Sanon-Kajol film for a juicy, substantive drama. But the unpacking turns more into an unravelling, mainly because the writing is shallow, and the characters lack depth.d

‘Do Patti’ comes armed with much promise. It is the first offering of a brand new female-led production house, with producer-actor Kriti and writer Kanika Dhillon having created an interesting ensemble led by Kajol, popular TV actor Shaheer Sheikh, Tanvi Azmi, Brijendra Kala and Vivek Mushran. What’s not to like? Turns out, quite a lot.

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Do Patti
Priyanka Roy
The Telegraph
Do Patti has its heart in the right place but is otherwise all over the place.

The growing worry about lack of quality control in the OTT space now has a physical embodiment. Do Patti. A film which may have its heart in the right place but is otherwise all over the place. Do Patti aims to be a sensitive and scathing film on domestic abuse. The other tags it wants to earn for itself are a noir thriller, a police procedural, a film on sibling rivalry, a blistering criticism of privilege and a racy romance laced with sex, lies and videotape (or rather, mobile phone footage). It ends up being neither.

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Raat Jawaan Hai
Priyanka Roy
The Telegraph
A breezy watch which scores for being relatable

The millennial attempting to retain individuality and identity, while holding on to old friendships and coping with being a new parent, is a demographic that has hardly, if ever, been represented on the Indian screen. Even if it has been, it has been reduced to a strand or a subplot in a coming-of-age story. The fact that it even goes down this route immediately sets Raat Jawaan Hai apart. That it does it well, making its eight episodes a breezy watch which you want to hold on to and hope it doesn’t end, is a huge feather in its cap. This is a definite clutter-breaker in the Indian streaming space. One which has been long overdue.

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The Shameless
Sanyukta Thakare
Mashable India
Cannes Winner Comes With Radical Performances And Bleak Status Of Indian Women

Performances are worth it

The Shameless became highly recognizable after its Cannes 2024 victory. The film’s leading star Anasuya Sengupta made history and became the first Indian actor to win the Best Actress Award at Cannes. The film explores the story of two polar women stuck in the world of prostitution finding hope in each other, but the bleakness and grim reality of the world is always just around the corner to take it away. The film though dramatic and dark has much appreciative theatrical performances with wit of Sengupta’s abrasive character. Devi and Renuka keep the story balanced but the outcome is left for the audience to endure.

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Santosh
Sanyukta Thakare
Mashable India
Shahana Goswami’s Film Is One Of The Finest Police Dramas

It comes with a grim reality check

Santosh which has been making rounds in the top film festivals including Cannes is by the British-Indian director Sandhya Suri. Focusing on the state of rural India through the eyes of a young femal cop, the film is is Suri’s first fiction feature, which can be seen in its rawness and sincerity. The film is led by Shahana Goswami and Sunita Rajwar as cops on the other side of the law, and their performances are unforgettable.

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Girls Will Be Girls
Sanyukta Thakare
Mashable India
Richa Chadha Backed Film Is Where Independent Cinema Meets Commerical

Complex but rewarding Mother-Daughter story

Girls Will Be Girls is helmed by first time feature film director Suchi Talati. It follows the story of a high school top student in a coming of age story. But the story isn’t just about Mira played by Preeti Panigrahi but also about her mom Anila played by Kani Kusruti. Their complex relationship amid Mira’s rebellious romance with NRI boy Sri (Kesav Binoy Kiron), the tense environment in strict school. The film offers a change for millennials to live through some of their most embarrassing and traumatizing memories but also gives a chance to many more in building a better and more nutriting relationship with their mothers.

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The Real Superstar
Uday Bhatia
Mint Lounge
Lost in the Twilight Zone with Amitabh Bachchan

Cédric Dupire’s ‘The Real Superstar’ spans the actor’s epochal career but is an atypical tribute

Aman in red suede pants and jacket walks down a deserted road at night. Another man in a sky blue jacket over a black shirt races across a bridge as gunfire explodes around him. Yet another, in a deep blue shirt knotted at the waist, staggers out of a warehouse and is immediately carried off by a delirious crowd chanting his name.

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